It was announced today the DNS security extensions have been deployed in the .net domain. This is the next to last big top level domain to adopt DNSSEC, with only the .com zone remaining. It is expected that .com will be signed in March of 2011. This is a big milestone for improving cyber security.
The timing is excellent given that the the recent WikiLeaks attacks have generated a lot of concern about the sorry state of Internet security. DNSSEC stops cache poisoning and man in the middle attacks and enables many other improvements in online and email security and privacy.
A recent survey of businesses by Forrester Research (sponsored by Verisign, the operator of the .net and .com domains) found significant demand for DNSSEC among businesses. Details from the study will be released next week.
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Posted by: yiwu | 12/15/2010 at 05:57 AM